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IE7 Installation via GPO

Previously to a few months ago I had the block IE7 install GPO in place for my network (over 100 XP Pro clients). I unlinked the GPO when I tested IE7 with commonly used websites without any issues.

I am not sure what the percentage of clients received the automatic update & ran through the install wizard of IE7. I have two questions that I haven't found an answer for yet.

1. How can I lookup which clients do not have IE7 installed?
2. How can I force the install of IE7 to the clients who do not have it?

JBlond

Is there a reason why you don't use the WSUS?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx

With WSUS you could easily determine which computer has IE7 installad and which not.

If you don't want to use WSUS the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer should also help you to determine the Internet Explorer version on all computers.

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We don't use WSUS because of cost of another server. If we had over 200 clients it might be justifiable with saving bandwidth but we have about 125. (we also have proxy server that caches some updates)

I forgot about using the MBSA, I will use that unless anyone has other ideas that are more efficient.

thanks

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I will look into the WSUS when I have time for it. For now the MBSA worked.